COGNITIVE DIFFERENCESComplexity reigns in the brain. For many years, scientists have mused where in the homunculus does consciousness lie? Perhaps this parallels the discourse and debate among medieval scholars - how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. However on closer examination, the question leads us directly to complex, self organized, "the whole is more than the sum of the parts" thinking. How do we think? Feel? Evolve? Store memories? Do these processes work the same way in men and women? This emerging field studing the interaction of gender and neuropsychobiology is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern medicine. The facts:
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Cognitive Neuropsychobiology and Gender |